Lord Adebowale writes on Drunk Tanks in the Huffington Post

News item posted: 19 June 2017

Lord Victor Adebowale, Chief Executive of Turning Point, has
written a blog for The Huffington Post on drunk tanks.

This is based on the proposal from Chief Constable Adrian Lee,
the national policing lead on alcohol harm, to send people who are
so intoxicated they cannot look after themselves to drunk tanks to
sober up overnight.

Victor writes that "the idea, which no doubt appeals to headline
writers, seems like a simple solution to an age-old problem which
is why it concerns me.

Quick-fix solutions to complex problems never work, and alcohol
addiction is a very complex issue that drunk tanks alone will not
overcome."